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Old 09-18-2007, 11:03 PM   #11
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(qbee42 @ Jul 9 2007, 08:02 AM) [snapback]475500[/snapback]</div>
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...Save yourself the trouble and use a few $20 bills for fire starters. [/b]
Or, buy lottery tickets....


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I think it would work about as good as filling the tires with hydrogen to make the car lighter!


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Get big enough tires and you might be able to offset 1,000 lbs of mass.... But then there is the added weight of the larger tires.... Hmmm, anyone for anti-gravity magnetic levitation????
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Old 09-19-2007, 05:25 AM   #12
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From: - http://www.nowpublic.com/life/energy...myth-or-legend

Stanley Meyer, inventor of the 'water-powered car'. Meyer just wanted to give people cheap, clean energy....In 1996 he was found guilty of
"gross and egregious fraud" by an Ohio court. He died in 1998 after
eating at a restaurant; the coroner diagnosed an aneurysm, but the
conspiracy web still suspects he was poisoned [by oil companies]...

...It's not easy to establish how
Meyer's car was meant to work, except that it involved a fuel cell that
was able to split water using less energy than was released by
recombination of the elements. Dig a little deeper and you will
soon find the legendary Brown's gas — a modern chemical unicorn to
rival phlogistion — in which hydrogen and oxygen are combined in a
non-aqueous state called 'oxyhydrogen', in the same proportions in
which they are found in water (2:1). Brown's gas was allegedly used as
a vehicle fuel by its discoverer, Australian inventor Yull Brown.
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Old 09-19-2007, 06:38 PM   #13
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(patsparks @ Sep 19 2007, 05:25 AM) [snapback]514694[/snapback]</div>
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From: - http://www.nowpublic.com/life/energy...myth-or-legend

Stanley Meyer, inventor of the 'water-powered car'. Meyer just wanted to give people cheap, clean energy....In 1996 he was found guilty of
"gross and egregious fraud" by an Ohio court. He died in 1998 after
eating at a restaurant; the coroner diagnosed an aneurysm, but the
conspiracy web still suspects he was poisoned [by oil companies]...

...It's not easy to establish how
Meyer's car was meant to work, except that it involved a fuel cell that
was able to split water using less energy than was released by
recombination of the elements. Dig a little deeper and you will
soon find the legendary Brown's gas — a modern chemical unicorn to
rival phlogistion — in which hydrogen and oxygen are combined in a
non-aqueous state called 'oxyhydrogen', in the same proportions in
which they are found in water (2:1). Brown's gas was allegedly used as
a vehicle fuel by its discoverer, Australian inventor Yull Brown.
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Thank you for noting that apriusfan does not have the ability to think freely enough with open eyes to see the truth. Several cars have hydrogen systems similar to the stanley meyer prototype but stanley had injectors that were able to break the water supplied to them up into H2 and O2 as a direct injection device to the cylinders. This technology has been supressed for many many years.
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Old 09-19-2007, 07:05 PM   #14
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Wait a second, doesn't the alternator produce more electricity than is neccessary, thus "free" or wasted energy? Recouping this with the hydrogen system seems like a good Idea?

Writing this off as hogwash at first glance seems shortsighted to me?

Am I wrong?
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Old 09-19-2007, 07:13 PM   #15
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Hi All,

There has to be conservation of energy. There has to be conservation of energy. There has to be conservation of energy.


Consequently its impossible to power a car from sea water alone in a non-nuclear fashion. Sorry. That as basic as gravity.

Get over it. No other BS washes.

What might be advantageous to fuel economy is to get more of the gasoline energy into the engine output shaft. Remember, standard Otto engines are only 10 to 25 % efficient, depending on load. That is 75 percent wasted energy! Could that energy be tapped? We know it can with different engine designs, like those in the Prius and Diesels.

Is it possible to make a gasoline calibrated Otto engine an HCCI, or psuedo-Diesel by injecting H2 and O2, or some other gas (HO and H mixture ?) along with gasoline? I think that is worth investigating. Will it punch a hole in a cylinder in an engine not designed for the specific burn that does occur? Could. Will it generate lots of NOx, like other Diesels? Could. Will it result in 20 % better fuel economy? Could.


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The idea, articulated with varying degrees of vagueness in news reports when they bother to think about such things at all, is that the field is somehow dissociating water into oxygen and hydrogen. Why salt should be essential to this process is far from obvious. You might think that someone would raise that question.

But no one does. No one raises any questions at all. The reports offer a testament to the awesome lack of enquiry and critical thought that makes news media everywhere quite terrifyingly defenceless against bogus science.

And it's not just the news media. There is footage of labs and people in white coats and engineers testifying how amazing the result is, and no one seems to be wondering about how this amazing phenomenon works. As a rule, it is always wise to be sceptical of people claiming great breakthroughs without the slightest indication of any intellectual curiosity on their part. [/b]
Now why would anyone want to know how it actually works?

I'm ready to convert my Ford Explorer to run on seawater. It only gets 15 mpg on gasoline, so what kind of mileage can I expect with seawater? Can I get 100 miles per 17 gal tank? Sign me up.

If this works as advertised, I will be able to sell my Prius and drive my SUV using seawater.

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dallas2727 @ Sep 19 2007, 07:05 PM) [snapback]515016[/snapback]</div>
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Wait a second, doesn't the alternator produce more electricity than is neccessary, thus "free" or wasted energy? Recouping this with the hydrogen system seems like a good Idea?

Writing this off as hogwash at first glance seems shortsighted to me?

Am I wrong?
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Yes, you are wrong. Every bit of electricity from the alternator is paid for by burning gas, and you don't trade evenly for it. You have to consume more energy than the alternator produces, so it works at a net loss (this is basic thermodynamics). From a fuel efficiency standpoint, you are better off to not make the extra electricity and save the fuel used to make it.

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(D Rock @ Sep 18 2007, 07:55 PM) [snapback]514622[/snapback]</div>
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Stanley Meyer built a system that could run on water to power a dune buggy. [/b]
Too funny. Interesting that he could never really explain just how he violated the laws of thermodynamics. Just that he could. He makes energy out of water. And we're even told that Hydrogen is "More powerful" than the energy in oil. OK. Whatever that means. It sure sounds impressive!

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Since 1924 the gas milage on cars has not changed. Why do you think this is true?[/b]
Well, there are several reasons. But before we start, can anybody show me the 1924 5-passenger car that could go over 100 mph and still get 50 mpg at 60mph? Ready? Go! Oh wait... how about one that does that AND burns the gasoline insanely cleanly?

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here is another video of a man that runs a car on water except he seperates the hydrogen and oxygen after it is created and mixes them at different rations for putting into the combustion chamber.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j7d-FJ7TQk&NR=1
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And as usual, we can separate H2 and O2 using less energy than the H2 then holds, right? Nope. It hasn't been done.

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Wait a second, doesn't the alternator produce more electricity than is neccessary, thus "free" or wasted energy? Recouping this with the hydrogen system seems like a good Idea?

Writing this off as hogwash at first glance seems shortsighted to me?

Am I wrong?
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Yup. I'm afraid you're wrong. No such thing as producing more electricity than is neccessary. What you don't use isn't produced. What you produce takes more energy than can be returned. Otherwise, we could be driving around in... water-powered cars!

Nobody wants free energy more than I do. But this all just pegs the BS meter at max. You can't surpress this, folks. Not world-wide. Not even nation-wide. We've got too many smart people (and too many quacks too, apparently).

As the Zeitgeist movie says, "truth is not told, it is realized." Well, the "water into energy" movies tell us what to believe. Yet nobody has yet realized it.
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How about a deep-cycle battery that gets more efficient with use, runs on water and bananas, and is genetically predisposed to being plugged in?
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How about a deep-cycle battery that gets more efficient with use, runs on water and bananas, and is genetically predisposed to being plugged in?
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I still think my idea of magnetic levitation-based anti gravity unit is the best idea for efficiency improvements. In fact, with a suitable implementation, it should be able to drive with no refilling for at least 10 years. Maybe longer with more efficient anti gravity units.
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